Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Canon U.S.A., Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding district court’s exclusion of expert arson evidence proper where experts failed to compare hypothesis to evidence from scene in violation of NFPA 921
• testing that was not conducted under the conditions at the time of the fire was not reliable
• “NFPA 921 requires that hypotheses . . . be carefully examined against empirical data obtained from fire scene analysis and appropriate testing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).